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" In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. "

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "

" In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. "

Catherine the Great

" Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down. "

" I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. "

" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "

Abraham Lincoln

" American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean. "

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

" A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party. "

" I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable. "

Whitfield Diffie

" We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics. "

Gary Rossington

" I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar. "

" When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. "

Marianne Williamson

" I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view. "

" You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. "

" I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. "

" I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. "

" In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' "

" Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. "

" Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point. "

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act. "

" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "

" The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff. "

The Right Thing

" I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. "

" High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

" I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. "

" When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. "

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